How to turn off Apple Intelligence

If you don't know how to disable Apple Intelligence, here is a step-by-step guide that will help you.

The latest entrant in Apple's ecosystem, Apple Intelligence improves your experience with AI-powered features such as Writing Suggestions and Notification Summaries. So, you might want to turn off Apple Intelligence entirely if these intelligent suggestions overwhelm you and you would not want it to be enabled at all. If you wish to have some control over your iOS or macOS device, then you can turn this AI suite off.

How to turn off Apple's artificial intelligence on iOS devices

Just follow these steps to completely shut off Apple Intelligence on your iOS device:

Launch the preferences app: First, launch the Settings app on your device. Tap General once you have scrolled down the list. Tap Apple Intelligence & Siri from the menu.

To confirm your choice, tap Turn Off Apple Intelligence.

Turn off Apple's AI:

You can find an option to turn Apple Intelligence on/off in the Siri & Apple Intelligence settings menu. To do so, simply slide the switch to the "On" position to turn it off.

If you select to turn the feature off, a confirmation window opens and asks you to confirm. Tap Turn Off Apple Intelligence to confirm your selection.

On Macs, the process for turning off Apple Intelligence is almost the same.

At the bottom of that process, Apple Intelligence is no longer enabled. That kills features like customized writing tools and notification summaries. You can't backtrack and toggle on items—even Apple Intelligence—because this is an all-or-nothing affair.

How to turn off Apple Intelligence on a Mac

The process for turning off Apple Intelligence on a Mac is nearly identical:

Go to System Preferences: You can access System Preferences from the top left of your screen by selecting the Apple menu. Then, under the menu, find the option Apple Intelligence & Siri.

Turn Off Apple's Intelligent Assistant: You will disable Apple Intelligence by clicking the toggle corresponding to it. Confer to your choice by clicking the confirmation box that comes up; then, choose Turn Off Apple Intelligence.

New enhancements have taken Apple Intelligence further from their infancy days.

You will not be able to access any of your Mac's native AI functionalities once you have turned off Apple Intelligence. It's a trade-off between convenience and ease, and Apple's AI technologies.

What to consider before turning off Apple's artificial intelligence

Several of the new AI-based conveniences-most notably, predictive text and Notification Summaries-won't work on your phone once you delete App Jersey. If those are qualities that bug you, it might just be the right decision to get rid of it all together. On the flip side, you can shut off Notification Summaries-as well as several other features that I've identified-along.

At each iteration, Apple's Intelligence improves and becomes a whole different beast altogether, still being in diapers. This, like every technology so far, sometimes includes further added features such as utilizing Genmoji or adding improvements to Siri with ChatGPT that make you go: "Maybe it's actually time for me to stop using that service." So if for any reason you're not sold yet, try these following things first before waving goodbyes for the final time to Apple's AI.